Re: [syndication] Re: New poll for syndication

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

Aaron for the 3rd time, you got what you want, I wasn't talking to you, so
please stop interfering. Damn, some people have to win every thing. No room
for other points of view. This totally sucks. Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Swartz" <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
To: <syndication@egroups.com>
Cc: <rss-dev@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:11 PM
Subject: [syndication] Re: New poll for syndication


> Dave Winer <dave@userland.com> wrote:
>
> > Maybe some people don't want to contribute to standards, maybe they just
> > want to get more hits for their sites. I think we should start a new
mail
> > list with a charter that puts the focus on use of this stuff, not on a
> > standards process.
>
> I'm not clear what you mean by this Dave -- RSS-DEV has been recently
> criticized for having a _lack_ of a standards process. It's not a
political
> body, and there was no political discussion until you got involved. While
my
> personal goal is not to get more hits for my sites, it is also not to
spend
> time in committees arguing over technical details.
>
> Personally, my goal is to make the Web even cooler than it is already.
> Whether that is done through a format decided by me, you, O'Reilly, or
Bill
> Gates makes little difference. All I'd like, is for that format to exist,
> and for people to use it. I joined up with the RSS-DEV list because I
think
> that they might likely make that happen. But if you start a new list, I'll
> join up with it too, and likely do my best to help it move along.
>
> What I'd like more than anything is for cool things to start happening.
They
> won't happen by standing still, and they won't happen by fighting. They
will
> happen by moving: running, jumping, writing, coding, discussing, arguing
and
> thinking. That's all: I just want things to happen, what they're called
and
> who does them makes little difference to me.
>
> --
>         Aaron Swartz         |"This information is top security.
> <http://swartzfam.com/aaron/>|     When you have read it, destroy
yourself."
>   <http://www.theinfo.org/>  |             - Marshall McLuhan
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